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CVRD manger of development services Rob Conway addresses a large crowd at the Sahtlam Fire Hall, there to present questions and concerns about a Temporary Use Permit application by the organizers of the Rock of the Woods music festival for July 2015. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

Rock festival debate packs house KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Both supporters of Rock of the Woods and those with concerns about the annual music and arts festival packed the Sahtlam Fire Hall last Thursday a public meeting, part of the process that will determine if the event can pro-

ceed this summer.

Festival organizers are hoping to hold the 2015 event on July 2326 in the same location off Irvine Drive where it was held last summer. In the past, the event had moved from Bamberton in 2011 to Glenora Farm in 2012 to the Godfrey Brownell Winery in 2013.

While most of those in attendance were there to back the Rock of the Woods organizers, there was a vocal minority of residents expressing opposition to the festival, at least in its current form.

ROTW founder Dave Bain felt he had at least addressed some of the concerns, even if he hadn’t

converted some of the festival opponents.

“By the end of it, I had people coming up to me and saying thank you for all the information,” he said.

The meeting is part of the first true test of Area E’s Temporary Use Permit application process,

intended to address large events on land not zoned for them. The process was formalized last fall.

“I think it’s good to finally have a process, but a lot of people aren’t happy with how the process was made,” said Bain.

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Controversy surrounds gravel bid LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure will phone provincial Mines Minister Bill Bennett as well as write asking that the owners of a property at 7303 Richards Trail be required to provide an environmental impact study and a groundwater protection plan before issuing a mining permit for a gravel pit.

In addition, he’ll also ask the minister to be sure, if the application is approved, that a comprehensive monitoring program is established to protect ground water, private wells and Richards Creek.

Copies of the correspondence will also go to the ministers of agriculture and the environment.

The direction to the mayor followed a long discussion at the Jan. 21 council meeting.

The application dates back to last year when Gordon and Catherine Pastula, the property’s owners, were told they could no longer operate under a North Cowichan blasting permit as they were taking out too much material.

North Cowichan CAO Dave Devana said that even though a letter sent from the municipality to the mines ministry hasn’t borne fruit, it carried a message calling for important assessments that needs repeating.

Catherine Pastula spoke at last week’s council meeting.

“Three years ago it was recommended that we build ourselves either cisterns or a holding pond because there was going to be a big shortage of water,” she said. “And with the size of our property, we have two problems. We have too much water and no water at the top of our property. So we went with building a cistern.”

Eventually, last year, they ended up at North Cowichan, asking for a permit, she said.

“We’ve only been blasting one or two times a year. It’s not like we’ve been asking for a lot of blasting tickets. But they were denied because they said we needed a mining permit. That’s how it all started.”

She described what will be happening on their farm land as they haul away the

Catherine Pastula gravel. “It’s a one-man operation; it’s not going to create very much dust.”

Nearby residents have said the road is far too narrow and the area too rural in nature to support constant traffic by gravel trucks.

Pastula agreed in part, saying, “It’s an old rural road and it shouldn’t be walked upon because it’s not big enough to be walked upon. There’s no edges or anything else.”

Coun. Al Siebring wanted to find out why, if it seems the Pastulas have been operating under blasting permits from North Cowichan in the past, they must suddenly be applying to the mines ministry.

Devana explained that under a North Cowichan bylaw, they can remove up to 300 cubic metres of material in one year.

However, once the Pastulas were granted a blasting permit to do that relatively small amount, they used up their quota and came back for a second permit.

“Then it was found that they wanted to significantly increase the amount of material they were blasting.

It started at 100,000 cubic metres and then it was dropped back to 40,000. But, under our bylaw, we couldn’t issue them the second permit,” he said.

Coun. Joyce Behnsen then asked whether the rock that was blasted was in fact removed or was used on the property for roads there.

“The material left the site,” said North Cowichan engineering director John McKay. “I found out where it went and

talked to the people that purchased the rock to find out how many truckloads they received.”

Coun. Rob Douglas then stirred the pot.

“Coun. Behnsen was just referring to the 300-cubic-metre maximum. But I notice here in the traffic survey [done at the request of the Pastulas] it says for the year 2013 the total moved was 1,400 cubic metres, which is far in excess of the bylaw amount.

“My question for staff is, were we aware of this? Is this something we want perhaps to mention in the letter to the minister?”

Devana was surprised by the amount.

The actual figures quoted in the survey prepared for the Pastulas and released at their public meeting Jan. 7 say that during 2013 operations, 200 loads were taken out in a seven-cubic-metre truck. The total removed was 1,400 cubic metres, removed over 260 days of operation, an average of one load delivered per day.

Recently another concern has come to light.

Tracy Fleming, referral coordinator at Cowichan Tribes, wrote to North Cowichan, saying Cowichan Tribes wanted archaeological investigation prior to quarrying activities of the project because there may be middens and burial sites there.

“I would also like to ask North Cowichan to consider the potential harmful effects of diverting water from Richards Mountain for the cistern portion of this project. The water on Richards Mountain ensures much needed wetted habitat for salmon (particularly juvenile Coho) in the upper Richards Creek watershed,” she said.

Devana said the municipality would not be representing Cowichan Tribes’ concerns.

“Cowichan Tribes is their own order of government. This is not our application and we feel that Cowichan Tribes should speak directly to the ministry with their concerns. That’s not our job, to speak of. It’s up to their government to act,” he said.

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École Cobble Hill created an SPCA Club in November and it grew in numbers from 60 students to over 100 in the first few weeks.

With almost a third of the school passionate about animal welfare it was decided that a fund drive for the Cowichan and District SPCA was possible.

With posters and volunteers, what was to be a one-day event turned into a two-day four-event donation drive.

By the end of the two days, the club had collected an entire van full of pet items and $280 in cash donations for the Cowichan SPCA.

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‘Tenacious’ Loren Duncan Festival hours worry residents honoured for long service ROCK FESTIVAL, From Page 1

mental stewardship, she said, particularly for the The Cowichan Valley Cowichan and Koksilah Regional District honoured rivers, with a passion for colourful and sometimes “the need to value those controversial former Area entities and protect them E director Loren Duncan for future generations. for 15 years of service last He also “led the charge” week. on using riparian area “Director Duncan is a legislation. tenacious person to have Duncan was ahead of his sitting at the board,” said time in his call for parkland former director for Cobacquisition, she said, and ble Hill Gerry Giles, who Loren Duncan he was also in the forefront came in to do the presenof trying to get funding for tation, as she had served nine years with the Hospice Society from Island Health.

Duncan.

It’s an issue that is going to the Union of Duncan, who was known to be colour- British Columbia Municipalities this fall. ful and sometimes offbeat, always did his Duncan also played an instrumental role, homework and stuck to his core values, as the CVRD’s representative on treaty whether they were fashionable at the time negotiations with First Nations, in chanor not, Giles said. ging the district’s relationship with their He often thought of himself as the aboriginal neighbours. “official opposition” at the board table, “Loren is tough, he’s outspoken and at she said, and could be a “little bit of a times you could say he’s even over the bulldog.” top, but at all times he acted in the best He was a leader in the area of environ- interests of the community and the best interests of the people in his area,” Giles said and his voice will be missed at the table.

Duncan urged those on the board to continue the fight on dirty dirt, a term he coined We put your Best Interest First for contaminated soil, getting more recognition for the Koksilah River, and finally starting work on a regional growth management strategy.

“It’s been a great 15 years to serve the public and I thank you all,” he concluded.

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Bain noted that the ROTW organizers are “just sitting ducks” and had no role in creating the process.

Regardless, he is happy to have a formal way to address the community. Previously, ROTW volunteers took time to speak with residents individually.

“There has been no way to actually communicate with the community,” Bain said.

“The door-to-door thing was always done voluntarily by us.”

Among the main concerns expressed by nearby residents — including those who supported and attended last year’s festival — were the hours of festival operation.

Even before last Thursday’s meeting, Bain had planned to roll back the hours that the main stage will be running, from a 2 a.m. shutdown time last year to a proposed 12:30 shutdown time in 2015. On the final day, the stage will go quiet at 4 p.m. this year, as opposed to 6 p.m. last year.

The biggest issue, in Bain’s view, is increased traffic over the festival weekend on Irvine Drive, Sunrise Road and Barnjum Road.

“There are some more things around road safety that we want to work hand-in-hand with the community to address,” he said.

Residents also brought up the concern about river safety, as the festival site is right on the Cowichan River. Organizers noted during the meeting that trained lifeguards were on hand, even if they weren’t visible to festival-goers. Unfortunately, there isn’t much more that can be done, as the river is a public area, easily accessed from many places outside the festival grounds, and many of those in the water during the event had come from elsewhere.

The permit for which ROTW has applied would allow for as many as 1,000 attendees in 2015, which would be double the size it was last year. Bain doesn’t really expect the festival to attract 1,000 people this year, but wants to cover his bases.

In all, he felt it was productive to take the festival plan to the public for scrutiny.

Alison Nicholson, area director “Our operations plan is something we want criticized so we know what more we can do to improve it,” he said.

Area E director Alison Nicholson, who chaired the meeting, was impressed with how many people attended.

“There was good turnout from both sides, both supporters and people concerned about the appropriateness of the venue,” she said. “Not all residents, but quite a few residents have concerns. But there is also a lot of support in the community, particularly for the youth, the music and the local vendors.”

Nicholson expressed her own concerns that the Area E Official Community Plan doesn’t provide direction with regard to large special events. That’s something she will make sure is addressed when the process of writing a new OCP begins in February. “[The 2015 permit process] won’t be the end of it,” she said. “There has to be a decision made [for this year], but it needs to be addressed in the OCP process.”

In addition to the results of last week’s meeting, staff are also looking at written submissions regarding ROTW’s permit.

Nicholson hopes that a report will be presented at the February Electoral Area Services meeting, which will allow the permit to go up for approval at the CVRD board meeting in March.

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TAKING THE CHALLENGE

LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

North Cowichan is going to try to find a consistent way to deal with bylaw enforcement.

Councillors voted Jan. 21 to draft a policy covering “process, expectations and outcomes” related to compliance with and enforcement of bylaws so it is “applied equally to all property owners in the municipality.”

This move followed a discussion of a staff report to council about situations at the Richards Trail property owned by Gordon and Catherine Pastula.

Council directed staff to write a letter to the couple requesting that they relocate or realign their driveway and that they clean up and improve the visual appearance of their property in the next six months or face further action.

Despite deciding to write the letters, councillors were warned by their colleague Al Siebring to proceed carefully.

The issue came to council at least in part because of a complaint, at a time when neighbours of the farm are unhappy with the Pastulas’ application to remove gravel from their property.

Coun. Joyce Behnsen expressed surprise that they were being asked to deal with an unsightly property, saying that there were many such in the municipality and Siebring agreed.

“I think the way to deal with this should not be to bring down the hammer,” said Siebring. “I would urge a tremendous amount of caution. There are properties in this municipality that are worse than this.”

North Cowichan CAO Dave Devana said his staff had simply been asked at a previous meeting to provide a report on bylaw compliance issues and were also following up the complaint.

“This is not draconian,” he said. “These are fairly common requests. But, we’ve been talking about bylaw enforcement for four and a half years.”

Siebring persisted.

“I don’t like the implications,” he said.

“If complaints led to this, it doesn’t sit well with me,” said Coun. Maeve Maguire. “This is where I feel it’s heavy handed.”

She suggested dealing with a report on bylaw enforcement and then writing to the property owners.

Devana said that since the municipality has received a complaint, “we’d write the letter regardless.”

After Cowichan Bay’s regional district director Lori Iannidinardo alerted the public to some hunting debris left at Cowichan Bay, a group of concerned hunters got together and spent the morning of Saturday, Jan. 24 doing a marsh clean-up. Much debris was collected, including many plastic water bottles, plastics lighters, doggy-dung bags, and one lone rubber ducky, according to participants. “Cowichan Bay is still one of the very few public areas in which the tradition of waterfowl hunting is still enjoyed, and we were happy to do the clean-up,” said John Vanden Dungen. Iannidinardo has challenge the public to be “garbage free in Area D”. [SUBMITTED]

Video, website changes suggested LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

The new school board is going to be looking at a clutch of new ideas as it starts its four-year term.

Trustee Rob Hutchins would like his colleagues to look again at the idea of holding meetings during the summer months.

These have only been on an as-needed basis in the past.

Trustee Elizabeth Croft wants the school district to look into the possibility of presenting board meetings on video, saying that she thought the board of education would reach a much larger audience if it could be seen remotely.

Vice-chair Barb DeGroot asked if dis-

trict techs could make the Cowichan Valley School District website a bit more user friendly, especially for people that are looking for the agendas for the board meetings.

A simple link off the main page that would direct interested people straight to the agenda would be helpful, she explained, especially for those new to the website.

Croft also added that she’d like to see more searchability on the website.

Board chair Candace Spilsbury added that she hopes to see the publishing of a document full of board meetings highlights re-established as well, and for it to be available to a wider footprint in the community.

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OUR VIEW

Water solutions need wintertime action, too t may seem odd to be worrying about water as we pray to see a little sunshine amidst the dark days of lowering clouds and wet weather.

But worried we should be.

In spite of the soggy ground in our backyards, the outlook for the Cowichan watershed this summer is looking rather grim.

Unseasonably warm weather has left us with no snow pack to speak of. What little snow has fallen at higher elevations has simply melted away, unprotected by any kind of freezing temperatures.

There is nothing to hold the

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water in to save it for those predictably un-rainy days in July, August and September.

This bodes ill for summer flows in the Cowichan River — indeed for all of the Valley’s life-giving watercourses.

We all hope, of course, that last summer’s drought was an anomaly rather than a harbinger of things to come, but historical data indicates otherwise.

The summer river flows have been declining steadily for decades — it’s just taken several years of do-or-die crisis for us to even begin to look at doing something about it.

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Last year proved that we are late to the party.

And while it is good news that we are now getting serious about raising the weir and investigating pumps to allow us to divert more water from Cowichan Lake into the river when the flows get dangerously low, that’s crisis management.

Clearly, what happens in the wintertime is equally important to the sustainability of a healthy river system, and should also be addressed.

Whether that’s looking at policy governing logging clear cuts, or work on climate change, it’s

past time to at least start talking about it in a meaningful way.

Last summer’s inadequate flows threatened salmon stocks and effluent dilution, not to mention the continued water supply to communities.

Portions of the river were closed to swimming and other recreational activities because of bacterial counts climbing to dangerous levels in the too-hot, too-shallow water.

Must we get to the point where the taps are actually shut off before we accept certain realities? We’re already up the creek, we need to grab some paddles.

and guts to lead us away from this edge of environmental, social, and economic collapse.

Our new leaders must accept that business as usual is not working and be willing to institute some historic changes to our current self-destructing society.

And finally, we all need to accept that growth and sustainability are mutually exclusive on a finite planet, and that if our society keeps knowingly drawing down the ecological principal that future generations will need to survive, it will constitute a crime against future humanity, and be a sad epitaph indeed for our generation.

I read with interest the long letter by Glenn White in Friday’s Citizen.

I thank Mr. White for recognizing that most environmentalists are truly committed to what we do.

I don’t question the facts he presents, but I am surprised that he describes environmentalists as being out of touch with reality.

I can remember a time when many people smoked cigarettes in restaurants, airplanes, offices, pubs, and other confined spaces.

Then when we learned that second-hand smoke was poisoning everyone, and especially our children, there was a movement to change the rules.

Despite dire warnings that change would destroy the hospitality industry and wreck the economy, the practices were prohibited.

As with smoking, there is no question that our excessive burning of fossil fuels is poisoning the air.

Our children and other living things will pay the price for our wastefulness as they struggle to survive the climate chaos that has already begun.

We all need to be in better touch with reality.

As a community and as individuals, we can choose to modify the way we live on every level, from avoiding the drive-thru to changing government policies.

We have an opportunity, both individually and together, to do the right thing, or we can continue as we have been doing, letting our children and grandchildren pay the price for our carelessness.

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Sustainability key to prosperous future What can we do?

After watching a documentary about the plight of our oceans called Finding Blue shown at a local campus, a member of the audience asked the collective question “What can we do about this?”

No good answer was forthcoming at the time, but I have been thinking about what some of the answers might be.

I believe the question really means “What is sustainability and how do we achieve it?” Is it forest destruction and species extinction; is it climate change and ocean acidification? The answer of course is all of those

things and more and if we want to personally be part of the move towards sustainability, we all need to use less, waste less, drive less, and fly way less. We need to shop and buy domestic and local, small scale and organic when possible. We need to support the groups and individuals who are fighting for our future in the courts, in the press and on the ground at blockades, rallies and protests. We need to invest in the technologies that hold some promise of sustainability and divest from the corporations and institutions that promote and thrive on our unsustainable habits.

But most of all, we must elect people locally, provincially and nationally that have the vision

Opinion

Cowichan Valley Citizen | Wednesday, January 28, 2015

North Cowichan must not increase 2015 taxes Open letter to the Municipality of North Cowichan on assessments and property taxes.

I live in Lakeview subdivision.

My wife and I have lived in the Cowichan Valley for 34 years.

We moved to our current location seven years ago in order to specifically accommodate and care for an elderly parent with dementia and a brain tumour (who has recently died) as well as provide accommodation for a person with debilitating mental illness. I am retired, aged 65, on fixed income.

I have just completed my annual review of my assessment and property taxes. While we live in a larger than average home it is still under mortgage.

This letter is not about analyzing my financial situation and what actions we should undertake to make appropriate adjustments. This letter is to exemplify how our municipality has imposed an unreasonable tax burden on the average middle class property owners in North Cowichan.

Based upon the last seven years

BC Hydro better under government control Re: “Business shocked, angry over $18K Hydro bill” That article is timely. When BC Hydro was under our government’s control (NDP), we seldom

(2007-2014) our successive municipal councils have increased our property taxes a total of 48 per cent or six to seven per cent a year calculated in a simple average.

This increase is of course skewed by the 2012 council’s decision for a massive residential tax increase to give the Catalyst pulp mill a tax break. I stood before council in that year to protest this decision as being the wrong course of action and I will stand by that position for a number of reasons.

This grossly unreasonable increase has occurred during a very tough economic time globally when many people had to deal with little and no increases in their annual net income.

In terms of dollars, and based upon the term of ownership of this particular house (20072014) our annual property taxes have been raised from $3,364 to last year’s $4,966, an annual increase of $1,602. This seven year increase is double the amount that my pension has been indexed. Basically stated, I am going in the hole based upon property tax increases alone.

This of course does not deal with

the other levels of government and our Crown corporations that seem to think the money pit is bottomless.

Our returning mayor has gone on record during the recent municipal election stating that he thinks we should apply modest increases (whatever that means) in property taxes or our municipality will stagnate (again whatever that means). Other council members ran on a platform of fiscal restraint.

I am appealing to our new council to show us residential property taxpayers the utmost respect this coming year by directing staff to manage this year’s budgets so as to ensure there is no increase in our property taxes. It can be done; all that is needed is just a change in mindset and make the tough decisions.

We are not a bottomless money pit. If the municipality wants more tax dollars then I suggest that council focus on growing the overall tax base not growing individual taxpayer contributions.

had any problems, and if we did have any, they were quickly fixed.

But now, if you’ve accidentally overpaid the company, the company won’t give you your money back.

There’s no one answering the

phones or Internet. If you live in the sticks, there’s no one local to see. I want my money back, but I can’t get it! My overpayment is around $600.

Many mass killings not about religion Re: Letter by John McDonald, Duncan, “Ban religion to advance cause of world peace.”

I somewhat agree with Mr. McDonald in that religion has caused much havoc and death in the name of one’s beliefs.

Thousands of people have been killed, maimed or traumatized.

But, six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, with no religious connection.

Mao-Tse Tong murdered 65 million people.

He was not religious, but a secular humanist.

Two million were murdered under Pol Pot in Cambodia.

No religion there.

There were over 25 million

Environmental leadership needed from senior government Letter writer Glenn White gives an interesting and respectful commentary, pointing out quite correctly, that many Canadians are out of step with environmentalists on a number of fronts. It is indeed true that many people either do not fully understand the climate crisis or remain in denial about it.

It is also true that their lifestyle choices, buying large gas– guzzling vehicles for example, are symptomatic of the

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people killed in Russia during the Stalin purge. He denounced religion.

In the past 100 years, over 100 million people have been killed by people with no belief in God. We can thank religion, especially Christianity, for many hospitals, universities, food banks and social support through such organizations as the Salvation Army and the Mustard Seed.

All of these good works because of a faith in a loving God, using people to bring a helping hand to other people around the world, regardless what religion or faith those people have.

Butch Maxwell Cobble Hill

dilemma they are facing. It is also likely that rather than take action on an individual basis, which requires thinking and courage of an unusual kind, they prefer, understandably, to wait for the leadership that has been slow in coming from senior levels of government.

Until this leadership is forthcoming many people will continue to carry on as usual, hoping for the best until the situation becomes even more critical and we will all have to deal with the inevitable consequences of denial and delay.

Tom Masters Chemainus

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Stickers on gas pumps a hairbrained scheme I have just finished reading about the presentation by a Robert Shirkey to the CVRD about warning labels on gas pumps.

What right does a guy from Toronto where they think they are center of the universe, have to come here and urge our politicians to spend our taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; money on such a hairbrained scheme?

In general, I am fed up with these environmental lobby groups putting pressure on municipal politicians to spend our money on so-called climate change initiatives that in many cases have no science or faulty science behind them and have no

way of measuring the results. It is a waste of time and money!

Who will change their fossil fuel consumption because of a sticker? As long as all of us are dependent on fossil fuels we will see little change in consumption.

And it is not just gas and oil we use, but the hundreds of products which use petroleum derivatives in their manufacture.

Please CVRD use some common sense and shelve this label suggestion as merely an interesting but highly impractical way of addressing climate change. I am suspicious that somewhere some company associated with this huge environmental industry has a contract to make and distribute the labels. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that done at my expense and

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take Cowichanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water for granted With reference to the thoughtful contribution to the sustainable water debate by Dave Slade in the Jan. 2 edition of the Cowichan Valley Citizen and the response by Barry Dixon published in the Jan. 9 edition I would like to add a few more thought-provoking facts and figures on the water issue relevant to the Cowichan watershed and its water users.

First: no doubt about the scientific evidence of clear cutting the upper Cowichan River watershed being a significant root cause of the erratic and increasingly untimely inflow of water into Lake Cowichan.

It is well documented that large scale clear-cutting and the destruction of micro-watersheds dramatically reduce the waterretaining capacity of a natural multi-layered vegetation cover.

Although we are blessed with very high precipitation along the West Coast of Vancouver Island and B.C., heavy rainfall, generally concentrating on winter- and early spring months, will result in increasing frequency of downstream flooding and rapid run-off, unable to re-charge replenishable aquifers along the way if the destruction of microwatersheds continues.

This problem is exacerbated through clear-cutting steep slopes causing soil erosion and removal of ground cover while increasing siltation of water courses.

Second: The total water extraction by the Catalyst Paper Mill from the Cowichan River currently averages an alleged 34 million Imperial gallons per day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allegedâ&#x20AC;? because the water extracted from the river is not measured at the intake close to the Cowichan District Hospital but rather at the outflow pipe at the pulp mill prior to the used water entering the primary treatment plant.

It is unknown how much water is lost through an outdated and leaking pipe system inside the mill.

The 34 million gallons of water used by the mill are discharged daily into the ocean without being recycled as required by pulp mills in Europe and other countries which recycle their water up to 20 times.

This waste of water by the mill results in a net loss of 34 million gallons of prime water daily from the lower part of the Cowichan River, water which is needed most in summer and early fall during the salmon run, and water that is essential for the survival of the Cowichan Estuary salt marshes.

To put this issue into perspective: based on an average per capita water consumption of a conservative 250 litres per day the 168.2 million litres (i.e. 34 million Imperial gallons) of water used by the pulp mill every day could supply the water of 67,282 persons daily, more than three quarters of the total CVRD population (i.e. 80,332).

It also is interesting to note that North Cowichan buys on average 65 million gallons of water per year from Catalyst before it enters the mill to supply the Crofton water system at a cost of approximately $20,000/year.

Catalyst in comparison pays a token royalty to the Crown for its water use.

In this context it is noteworthy that at the peak of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer drought in the Valley the president of Catalyst Paper announced on the BBC news that the mill may have to shut down due to water shortage threatening 600 jobs.

The logical question to ask: why does the mill not invest into a proper water recycling system in order to make jobs in mill operations sustainable if water is the key limiting factor to mill operations?

Third: In his article Dave Slade draws attention to aquifers in the Cowichan River catchment area indicating that an increasing number of wells are running dangerously low and/or dry as of late.

He also mentions that very little is known about our aquifers. Inventories of aquifers in our area are largely lacking and little information is available on how many and to which extent aquifers in the Cowichan watershed are being replenished from rain-water.

In his article Dave does not mention the increasing global and possibly local importance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fossilâ&#x20AC;? aquifers of which nothing is known here on Vancouver Island and little in the rest of Canada.

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With increasing impacts of climate change several countries in the world already depend on fossil water. What will happen to these countries once the fossil aquifers are emptied?

The Ogallala fossil aquifer is a classic example of what may happen if it is depleted: it currently feeds 90 per cent of the irrigated agricultural areas of the United States, the bread-basket of North America.

Once depleted, grain production in the U.S. will come to a halt, seriously threatening the overall food supply. Predictions indicate that this may happen already in four decades.

Translated to the Cowichan Watershed: how do we know that we are not already tapping into fossil aquifers with our deep wells?

This should be a wake-up call for all of us. We all have to be aware of our water consumption no matter whether personal, industrial, or for agriculture in order to make water available for generations to come.

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Speaker tackles Raising Children in a Digital World their peers and that’s where the problem is.

The more the peers matter, the more their friends matter the more capable of being hurt by their friends,” Neufeld said.

Neufeld’s view gained many Cowichan supporters when Sunrise Waldorf School brought him to Chemainus last year and they’re bringing him back for another presentation this winter, this time in Duncan.

An alarmingly increasing number of teen-

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Raising Children in a Digital World is the title of the event, which will discuss how best to prepare children for an increasingly difficult daily life, according to Neufeld.

“We’ve taken a dreadful wrong turn in our society by creating conditions and by supporting peer attachments. Because now our children are becoming very, very stressedout,” he said in explaining the difficulties young people face with digital media.

“It’s just increased the amount of wounding that goes on and so it’s even more important that we restore right relationships with our children. The main way of keeping safe is making sure ‘we matter most’, which is a function of attachment,” Neufeld said.

“It’s actually very simple. The science of resilience has been able to uncover this key but that has huge implications for us because, for the most part, in our society

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Admission for the evening lecture, question and answer session and book signing is $25 per person. Tickets are available online at cowichantheatre.ca or by calling the Cowichan Ticket Centre at 250-748-7529.

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Miscellaneous • Presentation on what life if like in Cuba by Mary and Affie Duifhuis Thursday, Jan. 29, 6:30 p.m., Duncan Christian Reformed Church, 930 Trunk Rd., admission an item for the food bank. In November Mary Hof led a group of 23 people through western Cuba on a cultural, humanitarian hik-

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• Cowichan Fish and Game hosting Canadian Firearm Safety course, restricted and non-restricted, starting Friday, Feb. 6, at Glenora clubhouse.

Info and registration: Mike 250-7480319 or email canadianfirearmsafety@

shaw.ca • Somenos Women’s Institute and DUC Circle of Friends present U2 can Upcycle “Used becomes Unique”, Saturday, Feb. 28, 1-3 p.m., Duncan United Church. Admission $15, includes lunch. Tickets in advance only at Duncan United Church office, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-noon, or call Jan 250-746-4389 or Sandy 250-748-5820.

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• Infant Sign Language: Join us to celebrate Family Literacy at South Cowichan Library with special guest Karen Handford, Speech Language Therapist with introductory information session on infant sign language and language development. Friday, Jan. 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Pre-register 250-743-5436. Free.

• Art Healing: Special series, led by Francoise Moulin, artist and community connections program coordinator, Cowichan Intercultural Society. Sessions designed to stimulate your own creative process through art, beginning with watercolour. Wednesdays, Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 2-3 p.m., South Cowichan Library. Call library to register, 250-743-5436.

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Newspaper reported Golledge ‘took to drink and prowling around Indian villages’

Not all of our pioneers were heroes Only a small creek downfall of pioneer in the Malahat DisRichard Golledge than trict recalls this tragic these two news briefs pioneer who became an of exactly 20 years embarrassment to his apart? From having peers. had a position in the uly 30, 1864 — His highest office in the Excellency has land, poor Richard’s been pleased to fortunes had deserted CHRONICLES appoint Mr. Richard him. Or, as a journalist T.W. Paterson Golledge to be Acting so succinctly summarGold Commissioner ized his career, “Fallen for Sooke mining district. so low!”

July 31, 1884 — Richard GolToday little is known of the lage [sic], who 27 years ago was man who for seven years served the private secretary of Govas private secretary to the ernor [James] Douglas, and was remarkable Sir James Douglas. afterwards a gold commissioner It seems quite apparent that, and a justice of the peace to the embarrassed by his antics in province, was convicted before later years, his former peers and Mr. Justice Fisher of Esquimalt acquaintances did their best to on Tuesday of stealing an Indian forget him. Only the briefest canoe... mention, and then only in referWhat could better depict the ence to his official capacities, is

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It is known that he came to outpost Vancouver Island in 1851 when about 20 years old as an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Co. On one point few disagree: Richard Golledge was of a respectable family and he’d enjoyed a full education.

Which no doubt qualified him, from his arrival in Victoria until 1858, to serve as Douglas’s secretary, attending to the hundred and one minor details which daily beset the austere colonial governor. With 1858 he left Douglas, it not being known whether by resignation or dismissal, and isn’t mentioned again until the July 1864 announcement of his appointment by Gov. A.E.

Kennedy, Douglas’s successor, as acting gold commissioner in the then-booming Leech River diggings.

On Aug. 4, Golledge, apparently fulfilling his new duties enthusiastically, sent his second despatch to Gov. Kennedy in which he outlined the events taking place on Leech River where the discovery of gold had drawn hundreds of fortune seekers to this latest El Dorado. Golledge seems to have been caught up in the excitement, breathlessly reporting: “I have the honour to report that affairs are progressing in a very satisfactory manner, both in regard to the finding of good paying prospects, the numbers of miners gradually coming upstream, and the working of the present mining

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Shawnigan’s ‘Shrek: the Musical’ hits all the right notes LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

At rehearsal it looked like Shawnigan Lake School had a sure hit on its hands with its production of Shrek: the Musical.

On stage, the cast and crew delivered on that promise.

The show was sensational.

The acting was spot on, the musical numbers were lively, the sets were bright and imaginative.

Director Morgan McLeod, music director Shannon Tyrrell and choreographer Kelli McLeod showed their quality, too, in their skillful quarterbacking of a huge cast and live orchestra.

Everything was there to like about this presentation, which took place last week at the newlyrenamed Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in Duncan.

We had the added advantage of watching the show at the Saturday matinee with a host of children in the audience, which just added to the fun.

From the unlikely hero, Shrek (played by Joseph Duntoye) and his Princess Fiona (Ariel Fipke)

and his sidekick Donkey (Fanah Msubo) to the villains Lord Farquaad (Brandon Lee) and the Dragon (Tai Williams) the student singers handled the heavy lifting seamlessly.

What was especially interesting about this production was how sets were moved on and offstage without stopping the action. During the scene where Shrek confronts the dragon, in particular, the knights efficiently carried their sets on their backs.

And, as promised, there was lots of dancing. From the delightfully-costumed host of fairytale creatures to the clonelike citizens of Duloc, it was all fun for the big crowd.

Of course, Farquaad’s guards, who included the school’s hockey players, also got in some pretty hot stepping.

But it was the interaction among the many characters, and the attention to even the smallest details that really made this tuneful, funny and touching production one that will be talked about for years to come.

‘Please help us,’ a crowd of desperate fairy tale characters beg Shrek (Joseph Duntoye) when he encounters them on his travels. For more photos from the show, go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]

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YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK

QMS students ready to stage ‘Fame’ QMS fine arts students are working hard on their next project: Fame - The Musical.

“I wanted to select a show that would bring the fine and performing arts together in a big way,” explained director Martina Blake. “And that is exactly what this production is — big. Our cast consists of over 40 students with additional crew and choir members involved for support. There is a huge buzz on campus about this play.”

The show will hit the stage in February.

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Already a major draw in Canada’s West Coast ski resort towns, Grunwald has signed with the Agency Group and will take his 17-song self-titled best-of compilation on a tour of western Canada this spring.

He’s a five-time Aria nominee (Australia’s Juno), whose musical pyrotechnics have earned him performances at the Montreux

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He’s an avid snowboarder who loves to board by day and gig at night, drawing crowds of up to 400 in resort towns like Whistler, but now he’s taking wider aim at western Canada.

His special guest in Duncan will be Adam Bay. Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door for this very special performance.

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Iconic music, Agatha Christie and Buddy the Elf ready to take stage in Chemainus LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN

Having just wound up its successful 2014 season, the Chemainus Theatre Festival is preparing to launch a new year.

The theatre is dark for the first few weeks of the year but it roars to life in February with Project Johnny Cash.

This musical tribute to The Man in Black was conceived and written by the theatre’s artistic director Mark DuMez. Running from Feb. 20-April 11, it offers theatregoers the chance to saunter into the rockabilly world of the legendary Johnny Cash.

This show offers homage to the man and his music with more than 40 hit songs that celebrate the dark and light side of his incredible career and those of his famous friends.

As usual, springtime at Chemainus means a specially-chosen short-run play.

This year, it is The Mousetrap, which will take the stage between April 24 and May 30.

Yes, it’s that popular Agatha Christie masterpiece that never seems to leave the world’s stages.

Who will escape Monkswell Manor? A snowstorm traps curious guests, a police detective and a killer in a labyrinthine plot. No one escapes suspicion and no one is safe until the final moments of this famous mystery.

Once summer comes, though, it’s music season at Chemainus and this year offers something slightly different.

From June 12 to Aug. 29, everyone will be sure to enjoy Twist and Shout: The British Invasion.

Back in the mid 1960s, everything British was mod and stylish, from music and clothes to salt and vinegar potato chips. Bop your way back to those days with an irresistible musical revue featuring chart-topping tunes by the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers,

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the Hollies, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, the Dave Clark Five and more.

By fall, it’s time for another play.

In fact, another P.G. Wodehouse play.

Following 2014’s hit, Jeeves in Bloom, the Chemainus Theatre is presenting Jeeves Intervenes from Sept. 11 to Oct. 3.

Wacky, wandering Bertie Wooster is in London this time with an ingenious new scheme.

Can Jeeves, the invaluable manservant, save Bertie from marriage, exile to India and other society plights and flights all in time for tea?

Next up is Grace and Glorie, which the theatre describes as a dramatic comedy, running from Oct 16 to Nov. 7.

In a quaint Virginia cottage, a cantankerous 90-year-old faces her final days while her guilt-ridden big city caregiver faces her future.

They don’t often see eye to eye but this play will highlight new perspectives and provide hear twarming moments for theatregoers.

Finally, Chemainus ends the year with Elf: The Musical, which will run from Nov. 20 to Dec. 31.

When Buddy the Elf discovers he’s human, he goes on a quest: find his dad.

But what happens when his holiday spirit collides with his father’s businesslike attitude makes for great holiday fun.

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Cowichan Valley contingent set for Vegas Sevens tournament KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

A host of players with Cowichan Valley ties will be representing B.C. in the Las Vegas Sevens rugby tournament next month.

Several players who call the Valley home or who attend Shawnigan Lake or Brentwood College schools will be on the Team BC rosters for the tournament in Nevada on Feb. 12-15.

Vegas veteran George Barton will be joined by Aaron Hersant and Callahan McMaster on the U18 boys team, while Taylor De Souza and Kyle Joe will be on the U17 boys team, and William McDougallPercillier is on the U16 boys roster.

The U18 girls lineup will include Denise Roy, Avi Sharabi, Ciel Arbour-Boehme and McKenna Haz.

Nanaimo Timbermen announce return to Duncan Cowichan LMG players celebrate clinching the VISL championship last Saturday in Ladysmith. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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Gorge gives Cowichan first VISL title KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Cowichan LMG’s 4-0 win over Gorge in Ladysmith last Saturday may have clinched the first Vancouver Island Soccer League title in Cowichan history, but head coach Glen Martin knew the work was done long before that.

“We won the league at the start of the year,” he was quick to point out. “We didn’t win it tonight.”

LMG started the season on a tear, winning their first 10 games. They stumbled a little after that, with three ties and a loss among their next five matches, but sealed it all up with a dominant victory last Saturday.

“It’s been a long time coming for Cowichan soccer,” Martin said of the league title. “It feels good to win it. It gets the pressure off. It was starting to build.”

Martin is in his 10th season coaching Cowichan’s Div. 1 entry.

The team had placed second in the league in each of the last three years, including once when they missed first place by a single point.

“This is a tough league to win,” captain Jesse Winter said. “There are 18 games, and you’ve got to play them all.”

Cowichan got off to a strong start against Gorge. Romaie Martin scored his first goal for Cowichan — it would turn out to be the title-clincher — eight minutes in off a nice pass from Paddy Nelson. Brad Thorne banged home the next goal from a scramble in front of the net. The third goal came from Kevan Brown, finish-

ing off a play by Connor Crichton, and Nelson wrapped up the scoring with his 14th of the season on a pass from Keevan Webb.

“We got off to a great start,” Winter said. “The boys were all fired up.”

It was 4-0 at the half, and never changed. Cowichan settled back on defence in the second half, making a few excursions into the Gorge end, but never capitalizing.

“I give Gorge credit,” Martin said.

“They never gave up. They played hard all the way through.”

Robbie Hegglund put together a herculean effort on the Cowichan back end, playing all 90 minutes and coming off the field exhausted.

Winning the league puts Cowichan in an excellent place going into the provincial tournament, something the team has had its eyes on winning for some time.

“It’s awesome,” Winter said. “It sets us up for provincials. Now we have a guar-

anteed home game. We’ve said it for a number of years that we want to make a jump in provincials.”

Defender Brad Archibald has been with Martin the entire 10 years in Div. 1, while Winter and Thorne have been around nearly as long. Winter gave Martin his due for the endless work he has put in.

“You’ve got to give it to Coach,” he said. “He’s the man. He does everything for us, and we love him for it. He hasn’t missed a practice in 10 years.”

Even though his team has the league locked up, Martin doesn’t plan on taking it easy over the next two weekends.

Cowichan will visit Bays this weekend and host second-place Vic West on Friday, Feb. 6, and Martin wants to go out with two more victories.

“We’ll definitely try to win the next two games,” he said. “I hope we don’t have a letdown, but that can happen.

We’ll treat them like normal games that we want to win.”

After a successful visit to Duncan last summer, the senior A Nanaimo Timbermen have announced that they will be returning to the Island Savings Centre in 2015 to play a regular-season home game on June 7 against the Maple Ridge Burrards.

The T-Men hosted the New Westminster Salmonbellies in a regular season home game at the Island Savings Centre last July, losing 9-6.

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Shawnigan keeps winning streak alive in home games KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

The Shawnigan Lake School hockey team brought its season-long winning streak home for a couple of weekends earlier this month.

With two wins against Okanagan Hockey Academy and two more against Pursuit of Excellence at Kerry Park Arena, the team’s record is now 20 wins and zero losses, locking up first place in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League’s Varsity Division.

On Jan. 10, Shawnigan defeated Okanagan 4-1.

Okanagan actually opened the scoring, but Shawnigan roared back, tying the game in the second period before blowing it wide open in the third.

Gavin Yee, Reid Irwin, Noah Crumb and Liam Kennedy each finished with a goal and an assist, while Jackson Doucet had two helpers, and Cael Halvorsen stopped 22 of the 23 shots he faced.

Okanagan scored first again the following day, 36 seconds into the second period, but Shawnigan responded with five straight over the remainder of the period, and Okanagan had the lone goal of the third as Shawnigan prevailed 5-2.

Doucet had a goal and two assists, Kennedy and Triston Lebrun each finished

with a goal and one assist, and Crumb and Lowes rounded out the scoring. Irwin had two helpers, and Halvorsen made 11 saves to earn another win.

On Jan. 17, Shawnigan welcomed Pursuit of Excellence to the Cowichan Valley with a 12-1 thrashing. Shawnigan led 5-0 before Pursuit finally got on the board late in the first period. Shawnigan added three more in the second and four in the third.

All but two Shawnigan players had at least one point in the game. Crumb led the way with a hat trick and added an assist for good measure. Doucet and Devin Williamson each scored twice, Yee and Lebrun each had a goal and two assists, and Lowes had a goal and one assist. Kennedy and Kieran Furlonger each scored once, and Tyler Knelson finished with two assists. Ethan Schovanek stopped 15 of 16 shots in goal.

The teams’ meeting the following day was less of a high-scoring affair as Shawnigan won 4-0. Merek Pipes made 15 saves for his team-leading third shutout of the season.

Crumb again paced the attack with a goal and an assist, while Doucet, Kyle Bell and Dominik Faustino also scored, and Knelson and Williamson finished with two assists apiece.

Cowichan quartet picked in junior lacrosse draft KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

Mathieu Jung led the way on Sunday as four Cowichan Thunder lacrosse players were drafted into the B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League.

Jung, who was named the B.C. Lacrosse Association’s Most Outstanding Graduating Midget Player last summer, was picked 12th overall by the Nanaimo Timbermen in the second round of Sunday’s draft.

The Timbermen traded up in the draft, shipping future considerations to the Coquitlam Adanacs in order to snag Jung before the Victoria Shamrocks could get their hands on him.

“He’s a good little lefthander who can play both ends of the floor,” Timbermen general manager Jon Nicholson said. “He probably slipped [to 12th] just because he was from the Island. We had him targeted, and we knew we had to move ahead of Victoria with a couple picks so we could get [eighth pick Zach Manns] and Jung, and we managed to do that.”

Jung was recently named to the provincial U18 field lacrosse team that will play in the national championships in Nova Scotia next September.

Brian Robb, who played with Jung on Team BC at the U16 national field lacrosse championships last fall, was taken 22nd overall by the Victoria Shamrocks.

He was followed by James Taylor, who also went to Nanaimo, with the 37th overall pick, in the fifth round, and goalie Marc

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Teammates with the Cowichan Thunder, Mid Island Lightning and team BC, Mat Jung and Brian Robb were drafted by the Nanaimo Timbermen and Victoria Shamrocks, respectively, last Sunday. [CITIZEN FILE] Gagnon, who went to Nanaimo in the sixth round, 44th overall.

A record seven Cowichan players were drafted last year, including Taylor Martin, Pollo Claxton, Tyson Black, Chris Branting, Brandon Corby, Colin Winship and Connor Sutton.

With files from the Nanaimo Daily News

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Cowichan Valley Citizen | Wednesday, January 28, 2015

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Caps slip in playoff race KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN

With just one out of a possible four points last weekend, the Cowichan Valley Capitals failed to gain any ground in the B.C. Hockey League Island Division playoff race.

The Caps were thumped 6-1 by the Nanaimo Clippers on the road last Friday. Despite a much better effort on Sunday, the Caps were beaten 6-5 in overtime by the Chilliwack Chiefs.

The Caps struggled from the start of Friday’s game.

“We weren’t very good, actually,” head coach Bob Beatty said.

“We came out flat and didn’t regroup.”

Cowichan didn’t score until midway through the third period, by which time the Clippers had already amassed five goals.

Recently acquired defenceman Connor Russell scored the Caps’ lone goal on the powerplay, set up by Brodie Smith and Sean Harrison.

The Caps were just 1-for-7 with the man advantage. Matt Zentner got the start in net and stopped 43 of 49 shots.

The team looked substantially

“We gave up six goals, and you don’t win many games when you give up six goals.”

BOB BEATTY, Capitals head coach

better two days later, but fell just short of getting a badly needed victory.

“We came back and played a real strong game,” Beatty said of the narrow defeat. “Unfortunately, we lost in overtime. We gave up six goals, and you don’t win many games when you give up six goals.”

Beatty did acknowledge that the high-scoring affair was an exciting one.

“There was a great pace to the game,” he said. “The effort was there for the most part.”

The Caps came out much quicker than they had against Nanaimo as Kade Kehoe opened the scoring just 38 seconds in, with Kyle Horsman adding to the lead with a powerplay goal three minutes later.

Chilliwack managed to tie the score before the period was over, and went ahead in the second.

Horsman drew his team even with a shorthanded effort, and Luke Santerno restored the Cowichan lead a few minutes after that. The Chiefs again tied the score before intermission.

Skylar Pacheco scored in the third period as the teams again traded goals. Chilliwack was able to win the game in the first overtime. Kehoe and Santerno finished with a goal and an assist apiece, while Darien Craighead and Ryan Burton each had two helpers and goalie Lane Michasiw made 26 saves on 32 shots.

The Caps played host to the Powell River Kings on Tuesday night.

They will head to Powell River this weekend for two more games against the Kings.

Following last weekend’s games, the Caps trail the Alberni Bulldogs by 11 points in the race for fourth place in the Island Division. The Caps have 11 games remaining in the season, while the Bulldogs still have 15 contests yet to play.

Also in the mix are the thirdplace Victoria Grizzlies, who have a 12-point lead on the Caps with 12 games left to play, and the Kings, who are 14 points up on the Caps, also with 12 games remaining.

Defenceman Skylar Pacheco, who leads the Caps with 38 points, collides with a Chilliwack player during last Sunday’s game. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]

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